Autographic register



I. Q. SHERMAN. AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

' APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, I9I9. 1,416,180. I Patented May16,1922

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I. Q. SHERMAN.

AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 10, 1919.

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AUTOGRAPHIC REGISTER.

Specificatidn of Letters Patent." P t t d May 16, 1922.

Application filed May 10, 1919. Serial No. 296,099.

the strips of paper fed through the devicev is retained for the .purpose of forming a record. My invention further relates to that type of autogra-phic register wherein the several strips of paper are drawn over the writing tablet plate preferably by means of sprocket wheels or other automatically aligning feed, although this is not essential.

\Vhen the sprocket feed type of register is employed, or other self-aligning feeds,-it

is essential that the various strips be subjected to a minimum amount of strain or friction while being fed by the sprockets or at least to an equal strain. This is because the pins enter the perforations in the paper and jog the strips into line with each other, or grasp the paper intermittently in some other manner, so that should any one of the strips or all of them be pulled, or held back while being fed the sprockets would ceaseto register with the holes in the paper and true line feeding would not result. It has in the past been difiicult to'accommodate the sprocket feed to autographic registers which retain a record strip since the winding up of the record strip on a storage roll would exert a pull upon it as it was being fed, thereby throwing it out of registry.

In any record retaining machine, whether self-aligning ornot the simultaneous feeding of the retained strip'by the same means as the remainder of the strips has been difficult and this because the re-wind-ing of the record strip hadunnecessarily hampered the con-joint feed of all the strips.

It is accordingly the object of my invention to provide an operating device for the storage roll 1n an autographic register which 1s set for operation by.a connection with the feeding device and released to revolve the storage roll after the feed has been completed. In this way the record strip is permitted to accumulate within the casing of the machine during the feed andis wound up after the close of thefeeding operation. This object I accomplish by that certain construction and arrangement of parts to be. hereinafter more specifically pointed out and claimed.

In the drawings,

Figurel isa side elevation showing the parts in normal position. Figure 2 is a similar view showing the parts in the position assumed just before the close of the feeding operation.

Figure 3 is a top plan view of the device. Figure 4 is an end elevation thereof. The machine has a casing, 1, and operating handle, 2, and sprocket shaft, 3. On the sprocket shaft are the usual sprocket members, 4, engaging in the'perforations, 5, in

the paper,

Secured in the casing of the machine, past the delivery end thereof, is the storage roll, this roll having a spindle, 7. To the spindle, 7, is secured a pinion, 8, meshing with a pinion, 9, on the interior of the machine casing. The pinion 9 has a spindle 10, to which is secured a ratchet, 11, and loosely mounted on the spindle 10 .is a pinion, 12, carrying a pawl, 13. the parts 11, 12 and 13 being on the outside of the casing.

By the operation of the pinion 12, rotation is imparted to the spindle, 7, through the medium of the pawl 13, ratchet, 11', spindle, 10, and pinions, 8 and 9. The pawl 14: serves to prevent retrograde movement of the pinion, 9. Mounted on the sides of the machine are spring casings 15, 15, which resiliently support, by means of springs, 16, the members, 17. These members are bifurcated and support'the antifriction roll- I ers, 18. Resting on these rollers is a rack bar, 19,

\ held by along coiled spring, 20. On the spindle, 3, is mounted a pinion, 21, and a finger, 22. The pinion, 12, and this pinion,

. 21, are both located soas to mesh with the rack bar, as controlled by the finger 22, and its two spring supported carriers 17, 18.

When the feeding device is in normal position, as at the close of a feeding operation,

the finger 22 will beturned downwardly, and will depress the rack bar. As the feeding device is operated, the finger will raise and permit the rack bar to come into mesh with the pinion 21. Since the pinion revolves with the spindle, 3, of the feeding device, it will move the rack bar along, thereby stretching the spring 20, and this will continue until the rack bar is tripped out of mesh with the pinion.

Located in the side of the casing in the path of the bar 19, are the pins, 23, and the rack bar has a nose, 24, for engaging over the lowermost of these pins. As the feeding device approaches the completion of its revolution, the rack bar will latch over the lower pin, 23. The continued movement of the finger 22 will act to depress the rearward end of the lever free of the pinion 12 and the pinion 21 also. As the finger approaches a position directly over the inner rack bar support the outer support will be forced down sufficiently to release the bar.

from latched position.

This will bring the bar into mesh with the pinion, 12, and the spring, 20, will retract the bar thereby rotating this pinion and with it, the storage roll. A stop, 25, is secured to the casing to limit this last de scribed motion of the rack bar.

A complete cycle of operations has now been described whereby the feeding device of the register accomplishes the setting of a storage roll driving device, which comes into operation after the feed has been completed. The record strip is thus free from any pull during the feed, whereby it can be maintained in registry with the other strips in the machine. v

Although the device show-n is my preferred embodiment, I consider that any mechanism whichis set and released by a feeding device for strips of paper so as to operate a storage element in a machine of this character, thereby accomplishing a feed for a record strip, which is neither frictionally restrained nor positively pulled by a rewind device during the feeding movement responds to the essentials of my invention. The sprocket feed presents some points requiring more certain freedom from strain of a record strip than in other types of machine, .but in any autographic register it is of great value to be able to feed a recordstri f conjointly with the delivered strips and yet to store the record on a roll or analogous accumulating device within the machine by an automatic device acting during the stationary period of the regular feed. This is because the storing of the strip interferes with the feed and hence with the alignment of the record strip with the strips 'which are to be issued.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is; i

1. In an autographic register, the combination of a feeding device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper, including a record strip to be retained in the machine simultaneously in one direction, a means for positively accumulating the record strip and an operating device therefor adapted to operate automatically during the stationary period of the feeding device.

2. In an autographic register, the combination of a feeding device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper, including a record strip to be retained in the machine, and a storage roll for such record strip, and operating means for rotating said storage roll adapted to be set by the feeding device during its operation, and tripped at the close of feeding operation to impart rotation to said record storage roll. p

3. In an autographic register, the combination of a feeding device for feeding duplicate strips including a record strip simultaneously in one direction, and means for accumulating said record strip after its passage over the feeding device for purposes of retention in-the machine, and an operating device for said means set by the operation of the feeding device, and tripped at the close of the feed to impart motion to the said accumulating means.

4. In an autographic register the combination with a sprocket feeding device for strips of paper including a record strip, comprising rotating pin-bearing bodies adapted to engage in marginal perforations in said strips of paper and to feed same simultaneously in one direction, of a storage roll for storing said record strip within the casing of the machine after it has passed the said sprocket feeding means, and means for driving said roll, said means adapted to remain out of driving operation during the operation of the feeding device.

5. In an autographic register having a paper feeding device and a record storage roll the combination with a pinion on the feeding device and an operating pinion for the record storage roll, of a rack bar for meshing with both pinions, and means in connection with the pinionon the feeding device for controlling the position of the rack bar to mesh with said pinions selec tively, and a retractile spring for the bar.

6. In an autographic register the combination with a pinion on the feeding device and an operating pinion for a record storage roll, of resilient supports, a rack bar thereon, a retractile spring for the rack bar, said bar adapted to be pressed toward meshing position with said pinions, and a controlling device connected to the pinion on the feeding device for permitting mesh of said rack with the said feeding pinion during its operation, and enforcing a mesh with said storage roll pinion after the operation of the feeding pinion has been completed.

7. In an autographic register having a paper feeding device the combination with a pinion onthe feeding device and an operating pinion for a record storage roll, of re silient supports, a rack bar thereon, a retractile spring for the rack bar, said bar adapted tobe pressed toward meshing position with said pinions, and a finger connected to the feeding device pinion positioned to permit meshing of .the rack bar With said pinion during its operation, tip ping the rack away therefrom at the end of its operation,- said finger and resilient supports being so located relative to each other to permit of said rack bar moving into mesh With the storage roll pinion when tipped away from the feeding device pinions.

8. In an autographic register having a paper feeding device the combination with a pinion onthe feeding device and an operat ing pinion for a record storage roll, of resilient supports, a rack bar thereon, a retractile spring for the rack bar, said bar adapted to be' pressed toward meshing position with said pinions, and a finger connected to the feeding device pinion positioned to permit meshingof the rack bar with said pinion during its operation, and tipping the rack away therefrom at the end of its operation, said finger and resilient supports being so located relative to each other to permit of said rack bar moving into mesh with the storage roll pinion when tipped away from the feeding device pinion, and a retaining member for the bar adapted to hold it against retraction until tipped away from the feeding device pinion.

9. In an autographic register the combina tion of a feeding device for feeding a plurality of strips of paper, including record strip to be retained in the machine simul taneously in one direction and a rewind device for automatically rolling up the record strip after its passage of the feed device, and means for retaining this re-wind device out of operation during the operation of the feed device.

JOHN Q. SHERMAN. 

